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Colony is high and it is considered that this is

largely due to the University. There still appears to

be room in the Colony for increased medical provision

and a larger number of doctors, in spite of doubts which

have been raised as to this. It is proposed also that

students should be fncouraged to return to China after

graduation.

mainly

Recommendations have been considered that the

Clinical Professors and medical teaching staff of the

University should be Government servants, i.e. members

of the medical service with langely teaching duties.

The Committee consider, however, that the present compromised arrangement by which certain wards in the

Government Hospital are maintained for the use of the

Faculty should be continued.

Arts.

It appears that the Arts degree is now

considered to be little more than the crowning of Hong

Kong's secondary education. In this case a closer

liaison with the Government Education Department appears

to be desirable. The Director of Education, who is

ex officio a member of the Senate, should have some say

in the Arts Faculty, while the University should have

greater influence on the Colony's pre-graduate education.

The curriculum is modelled too closely on that of an

English University. Many of the courses have no real

interest for Chinese. It is doubtful whether the

Department of Commerce can justify its existence and

the courses bear no real relation to the actual practice

of commerce in China.

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